Dr. Joseph Thomas of the FDA
recently wrote to me to the effect that if there has been something
new since 2002, we can file again our request for ban on aspartame.
They completely disregarded the Imminent Health Hazard petition sent
to them in 2007. Here is the recent report exposing how FDA lies and
violates the law:
https://www.opednews.com/articles/Proof-that-the-FDA-Lies-Ab-by-Dr-Betty-Martini-Ajinomoto_Aspartame-Carcinogen_Aspartame-Causing-Birth-Defects_Aspartame-Class-Action-Suits-180122-719.html
Dr. Thomas' email to me is at the bottom of this post.

Of course, scientific peer reviewed
studies have continued and almost 100% of them show problems. FDA
has not even replied to the ones prior to that time. Taken from the"
US Right To Know” petition to FDA here are just some of the
studies:

Above are 41 studies the FDA has chosen to ignore and failed to answer.
They keep saying "show us the science," but when you show the
science to FDA they ignore it. In the case of the Ramazzini Studies, they
talk about sick rats and absurd excuses. They know very well this is a
lifetime study because so much cancer comes late in life. The rats in
the end had respiratory disease because respiratory disease is the dying
process and they were dying. When aspartame makes world news because it’s
so deadly, FDA again ignores it or contrives an excuse that has no validity,
as in this case. There is no way to get away from the fact aspartame causes
cancer in view of the fact their own FDA lead scientist, Dr. Adrian Gross,
told the Senate on 8/1/85 that aspartame is on the market illegally because
it violates the Delaney Amendment, because without a shadow of a doubt,
it causes brain tumors and brain cancer. So they have no excuse for aspartame
being on the market illegally. Dr. Adrian Gross wrote that because aspartame
causes cancer, the FDA should not have been able to set any kind of allowable
daily intake whatsoever.

Along comes Harvard University which announces their study on aspartame
and cancer is the strongest and the longest.

This is the perfect example of the
aspartame industry's power. As soon as this study was published and
was sent all over the world, Harvard apologized for publishing the
study, saying it was weak science.

First, why would anyone say they
used weak science and how could the strongest and the longest be the
weakest? The definition for strongest is "physically powerful."
How could something physically powerful be weak? Industry must have
been running low on excuses that day. Who is there to call at
Harvard University on who influenced them to make the apology?
(Certainly not the Fatal Drugs Allowed folks who are part of the
cover-up!) FDA scientists admitted in 2009 they were broken and gave
examples of corruption, even admitting they feared reprisals for
speaking out:

Many studies are done outside of the
United States. A translator, Norma Vera, contacted me and gave an
affidavit that she translated aspartame studies done in 6 countries
for G. D. Searle. They used people in poor villages and used a lot
of aspartame. Victims had seizures and brain tumors. She said it
hardened the synovial fluids which accounts for the joint pain that
so many experienced, which is also listed on the FDA report of 92
symptoms from four types of seizures to coma and death.

One pregnant woman hemorrhaged and
lost her baby and then disappeared. She may have died, and the truth
will never be known, thanks to Searle’s concealing of the evidence.

The FDA only pays attention to
industry studies, citing the ones that couldn't possibly be valid.
You simply can't take a chemical poison and have it show safety. G.
D. Searle had years to produce safe studies and of course couldn't do
it; this is the reason the FDA tried to have them indicted for fraud!

G. D. Searle did things like excise
malignant brain tumors from rats and put them back in the study.
When the rats died, they resurrected them on paper. The Board of
Inquiry of the FDA revoked the petition for approval, stating that
aspartame could not be proven safe and that it caused brain tumors.
So how could industry studies now prove safety, especially when they
have their own industry research front group, ILSI (International
Life Sciences Institute)? As
explained to me by an aspartame victim who worked in the Atlanta
office of ILSI: "if you want money, you have to get the result
they want - this is not an independent organization".

To give examples of how people in
the aspartame industry get away with saying their product is safe,
here is information from Mark Gold of the Aspartame Toxicity Center.
You can take their studies one by one and show what they did. Here
are examples of industry studies:

We'll start off with four people who
are well known as or were employees of The NutraSweet Company. Their
full names are:

Then we have Hertelendy Z and
Mendenhall CL (2002). These two persons performed NutraSweet-funded
research testing a single dose of aspartame on patients with chronic,
stable alcoholic liver disease. (American Journal of
Gastroenterology, Vol. 88)

If you go through their studies led
by Mark Gold, he mentions as an example that they could use a test
that could not possibly see plasma methanol increases of less than
500%. He states more details on this and other deceptive practices
related to aspartame and methanol are at:

http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/abuse/methanol.htm

He discusses one of many single day
studies funded by NutraSweet or industry trade groups which are used
in NutraSweet funded reviews to proclaim aspartame "safety."

One review by EFSA, the European
Food Safety Association, was plagiarized from an aspartame
manufactured review. Here is that report:
http://www.holisticmed.com/aspartame/EFSA-Draft-Plagiarism.htm EFSA
was reported to Olaf, a European organization having to do with
fraud. They found only one person made the decision, not a
committee. The European Commission, Scientific Committee on Food was
also reported. It was clear cut that no committee made a decision on
aspartame, just one person. So the European Commission became
inactive, and EFSA was set up hoping to avoid this loyalty to
industry. When the Ramazzini Studies were done proving aspartame to
be a multipotential carcinogen beyond any shadow of a doubt the
aspartame industry stepped in to get EFSA not to accept them making
up absurd excuses. Finally, Dr. Herman Koeter, who headed EFSA
resigned saying, "We were pressured by industry to hijack
science!!" The FDA, as expected, refused to accept the studies
in order to protect industry. The studies were so prestigious that
Dr. Soffritti received an award for his cancer/aspartame research
that had been given only twice in history.

More on industry funded studies of
aspartame. Let's take the sterling example of Arthur S. Leon, who
conducted research funded by the aspartame manufacturer, G. D.
Searle. He had 50 healthy subjects take aspartame for 24 weeks and
51 healthy subjects take a placebo for 24 weeks. There was a 50%
increase in adverse reactions in the aspartame group. But what Leon
did was split the reactions into 14 subcategories, so that within
each tiny subcategory they could claim no "statistically
significant" increase in adverse reactions. The aspartame was
given in slow-dissolving capsules which tremendously slow down the
absorption of the methanol, aspartic acid, and phenylalanine, so that
blood levels do not change nearly as much.

They really know the ropes and how
to conceal such damning scientific and medical evidence, but the
public doesn't have a clue what is going on.

Take two more, C. Benninger and LMJ
de Sonneville. These two persons conducted research funded by the
NutraSweet Company. Their study was conducted to "evaluate
whether even very small imbalances of phe [phenylalanine] (derived
from aspartame) in relation to LNAA [Large Neutral Amino Acids] have
any effect on cognitive function and brain electrical wave activity
in PKUH [PKU Heterozygotes]." Everyone agrees that aspartame
ingestion in liquids leads to a spike in plasma phenylalanine levels
(especially compared to other Large Neutral Amino Acids) that compete
for receptors along the blood brain barrier. However, these
researchers gave aspartame in slow-dissolving capsules so that the
plasma phenylalanine levels had very little change. This design
problem pretty much invalidated the whole goal of their study related
to aspartame and phe/LNAA imbalances. But this type of ridiculous
experimental design is typical for industry-funded research.

Take George U. Liepa who was part of
a NutraSweet Company-funded study of diabetic patients with chronic
renal failure. It was one of their many single-dose studies. The more
vulnerable the subjects, the shorter the study. The whole idea of the
study was to look at plasma amino acid levels: "Effect of
aspartame on plasma amino acid profiles of diabetic patients with
chronic renal failure." But as mentioned above, the study was
invalidated by giving the aspartame in slow-dissolving capsules which
has been proven by the industry's own consultants to prevent plasma
amino acid spikes. (See: "Plasma Amino Acid Concentrations in
Normal

McMartin was part of aspartame and
methanol research supported by the aspartame manufacturer, G.D.
Searle. They used a methanol test developed in 1969 that would not
show a plasma methanol increase of less than ~500%.

Raif Geha conducted research funded
by the NutraSweet Company related to aspartame and allergic-like
reactions (specifically urticaria/angioedema). Dr. Anthony Kulczycki
Jr., M.D. reviewed the study design from 1986 to 1987 and refused to
take part because of the flaws in the design of the study. Pretty
much all NutraSweet-funded are designed to make it nearly impossible
to find adverse reactions. And if adverse reactions are found (like
in the Leon study mentioned above), statistical acrobatics are
performed to claim that no adverse reactions were found. You can read
about Kulczycki's critique of Geha's research and his own findings
related to aspartame in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical
Immunology, February 1995, pg. 639-640.

Albert Koestner was two aspartame
pre-approval studies in the early 1980's to assess the prospective
brain cancer potential of aspartame in rats. His article was
published in an aspartame industry book in 1984, "Aspartame:
Physiology and Biochemistry." He relied on the stated results of
the pre-approval studies conducted by the manufacturer despite
testimony from U. S. Food and Drug Administration investigators who
said things like: "They [G.D. Searle] lied and they didn't
submit the real nature of their observations because had they done
that it is more than likely that a a great number of these studies
would have been rejected simply for adequacy. What Searle did, they
took great pains to camouflage these shortcomings of the study. As I
say filter and just present to the FDA what they wished the FDA to
know and they did other terrible things for instance animals would
develop tumors while they were under study. Well they would remove
these tumors from the animals." [FDA Toxicologist and Task Force
member, Dr. Adrian Gross] "[Searle's studies were] incredibly
sloppy science. What we discovered was reprehensible." [FDA
Commissioner Alexander Schmidt]

George L. Blackburn led aspartame
and body weight-related research funded by the NutraSweet Company. I
haven't been much attention to the body weight-related research other
than to notice that independent research has often come to different
conclusions.

These are just a few of the examples
of industry funded studies and the public, very few of whom are
chemists, have no idea of the maneuvering to try and get a poison to
show safety.

The truly worst crime committed by
FDA was the sealing of the teratology studies that showed neural tube
defects, spinal bifida and cleft palate for starters. I would not
even known about them had not the FDA's own Jerome Bressler when he
retired pleaded with me to find these studies and add them back to
his Bressler Report because people were using this poison without
knowing what they could do to their babies and the horrors aspartame
can cause.

So now we have a global epidemic of
autism. Here is the chapter on autism from Dr. Woodrow Monte's book,
"While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills" -
http://www.rense.com/general96/asparautism.html

When Dr. Ralph Walton did research
that was broadcasted on 60 Minutes, he found that 92% of all studies
showed problems aspartame triggers or precipitates, and said if you
eliminate 6 studies the FDA had something to do (the new FDA after
Arthur Hull Hayes was appointed to over-rule the Board of Inquiry no
longer exposed aspartame) and one pro aspartame summary, 100% of
independent studies showed the problems aspartame causes.

Since then again almost 100% of
independent, scientific peer reviewed studies show the problems.

When US Right to Know sent in these
studies, the FDA responded that “ they needed more time.” That
was in 2015. The modus operandi of the FDA is postpone or not
answer. I still have 24 questions I sent to the FDA under FOIA for
answering almost three decades ago and they haven't been answered.
Newt Gingrich when he was Speaker of the House had an aide work on
getting the FDA to answer the questions and the FDA denied even the
Speaker of the House's demand for answers. (When do people take the
"Fifth"? When they are guilty!

So this Imminent Health Hazard
Demand for Ban being sent to FDA is based on these undeniable facts:

(1) Aspartame has shown itself to
be a chemical poison by scientific peer reviewed studies the entire
time it’s been on the market and before and FDA ignores the science
and refuses to accept them as valid studies that should remove
aspartame from the market. How can the FDA not accept hundreds of
examples of independent scientific peer-reviewed research?

(2) They postpone any answers to
questions because they know to answer them honestly would result in
aspartame being taken off the market.

(3) When you point out to the FDA
they are using propaganda they not only won't change and tell the
truth but continue the lie and misinformation. As an example, they
tell the public there is more methanol in oranges than in aspartame,
thus getting them to believe the methanol is safe. In reality in
nature methanol is always accompanied by ethanol which is the
antidote to methanol toxicity, which takes it safely out of your
body. There is no ethanol in aspartame.

Further, in nature aspartame binds
to pectin and again takes it safely out of your body. When aspartic
acid and phenylalanine are brought up, they say they are the building
blocks of protein. They know perfectly well there are amino acids
you cannot isolate. In nature, they are in balance. Isolated
aspartic acid is an excitotoxin that stimulates the neurons of the
brain to death causing brain damage of varying degrees.
Phenylalanine as an isolate is a neurotoxin.

(4) They are telling the public
aspartame doesn't cause cancer because they know it’s illegally on
the market. One of the top scientists on aspartame at FDA at the
time of the aspartame investigation was Dr. Adrian Gross who told the
Senate that beyond a shadow of a doubt aspartame caused brain tumors
and brain cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment. FDA set an
allowable daily intake when Dr. Gross told the Senate they should not
have been able to set an ADI because it causes cancer. So today the
FDA lies to the public and denies Dr. Gross' investigation saying
they addressed the idea. They have not addressed the idea as I'm the
one who brought it up on the original petition and again on the
imminent health hazard petition I filed in 2007. Aspartame is on the
market illegally. As more independent studies come in confirming
that aspartame causes all types of cancer, the FDA ignores them
and/or says they won't accept them.

(5) Aspartame is an imminent health
hazard because from day one, it has precipitated or triggered enough
diseases to fill a 1000 page medical text, "Aspartame Disease:
An Ignored Epidemic" by the late world expert, H. J. Roberts,
M.D. www.amazon.com and is a regular killing machine as brought out
in "While Science Sleeps: A Sweetener Kills" by Dr. Woodrow
Monte.

(6) Aspartame is a drug
masquerading as an additive - in reality an excitoneurotoxic,
genetically engineered, carcinogenic drug, adjuvant and teratogen.
It damages the mitochondria and interacts with drugs and vaccines.
It was even given to me and I stopped breathing three times.

(8) The whole country is talking
about opioids and people dying, and yet the FDA knows perfectly well
that aspartame and opioids violently interact, and that's one of the
main reasons why the death rate is so high. Here is a study:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7751709_Possible_analgesic_and_anti-inflammatory_interactions_of_aspartame_with_opioids_and_NSAIDs

Yet FDA refuses to take this deadly
chemical poison off the market.

7. Section 402 of FDC Act 21
provides a food is adulterated if it contains, in whole or in part
"...a decomposed substance or if it is otherwise unfit for food"
The NSDA, now called American Beverage, in the protest against
aspartame approval in 1983 recorded this, as found in the
Congressional Record of May 7, 1985, Page S 5509, Senate. NSDA knew
aspartame decomposes in soft drinks. They objected: "Searle has
not demonstrated to a reasonable certainty that aspartame and its
degradation products are safe for use in soft drinks. Aspartame is
inherently markedly and uniquely unstable in aqueous media. In a
liquid such as a soft drink aspartame will degrade as a function of
temperature and pH." S5507, May 7, 1985. It also violates
Interstate Commerce laws because you are not allowed to ship an
adulterated product for sale.

(9) Aspartame caused horrible birth defects
in original studies and there is not even a pregnancy warning. The extent
to which FDA covered it up is a heinous crime, evening sealing them from
the Bressler Report which exposed them. MIT reports that by 2025, one
out of two children will be born autistic. While they think its Roundup,
another poison allowed to be on the market, it is aspartame causing everything
from neural tube defects to autism to many kinds of cancer.

Immediately, aspartame’s FDA
approval should be revoked and rescinded. This report has shown the
FDA that aspartame is such a poison the only way industry can get it
to show safety is by manipulation and almost 100 per cent of
independent, unbiased studies show it’s deadly. There are no
excuses left for FDA.